This is an analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lviii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

TO ONE ON HER WASTE OF TIME
Why practise, love, this small economy…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabaXbabcdcdbb
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 0110101 1101010100 0111011101 0001011101 0101011100 1101011100 0101010101 01010111001 1001001101 1100011101 1111011101 1101010011 0101110111 0111011111 1011101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15